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"ST ONG ~MAN"
OF EGYPT
KITS AT U.K.
"AIRO,,Tue~sday: Egyptian Prem.ir General $ agui yio
lently. attacked the British occupation of the Suez(CandI zppe
ye.r da for t1e first time ~i ce he became Egypt's "'strong
man't last July.
General Naguib told a -cheer
ipg crowd at the Nile.Delta com
munity of Tanta, that six months
of unity behiiid the Army wdild
. 'se Egypts natioiial aspir?
tions. - ....
"As long as there is a single
foreign soldier on Egyptihnntei
ritory we midst unite asd forget
our differences" he said:
.,Gneral Naguib made his first
stop at Tantia 6n a toiir through
Northern Egypt, to outline his
case against the Wafd Party
and its leader, Mustapha El
Nahas; ..
ATTACK ON "BRITISH
He denounced the Brifikli
Sel'ret'ry'for War, Mr. Anith
ony Head, for a statemint:
while- on. -a' 'toPr of theid'
Middle East that the Suez
Canal'zohe was indi?pnn?able
to' the Britis.h.'" ' -
"As soon as Britaln felt last
week that there .were internal
differences in Egypt, 'it War Sec
reotary made a horrible stater;iept.
in Cyprus, saying the Su~es
Canal was irreplacabie afno
there wasno alternative bas e.for
Britain," General Naguib said;'
"WILL SHOW HIM"
'"We protested, but he again
made the same declaration on his
arrival in London. Let him say
what he 'likes: We wih l'show
liiin," Naguib said.
General Naguib appealed not
only for national unification, but
for "moial mobili'ation" of all
citizens.
'"Every worker every peasant,
every Egyptian and' every Si
aniese must * consider himself
drafted at his' iost. I consider
as my soldiers, jnst as much
as the personnel of the armed
forcei," he added.
The Egyptiain. Governmelnt"has
formally protested "to"'. Britain
against recent statements of the
British base in the Suez Canal
Zobne by the' War "inister, ir.
Anthony Head.
Thie prbotest was handed to.thq
British Arimbassadoi''yesterday.
It said Head's statemients'were
a "blow to Egyptian feeling at a
tiie' whien both parties should
seek to imp~i ve relitions and
settle outstaiiding issues bg
|tiv6en them."
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